Today, continuing the sneak peek for the O-Family, I thought I would upload one of the ‘heart’ photos. This was shot with a lensbaby G3 lens, which is a selective focus lens. A heart shaped creative aperture disk is installed which causes the specular highlights to show up as hearts. The hearts don’t show up as strongly as they would have if we’d had a background of out-of-focus lights, but you can see them all around, if you look. My Hearts & Stars blog post shows a clearer example of how well the shapes can show up if the specular highlights are more pronounced.

I really like it a bit more subtly used, like this. I have a tendency to beat people over the head with effects like that, shooting with an entire christmas tree worth of lights behind the head or something 🙂

Now that gives me an idea – cut a christmas tree shape out of my spare aperture disks – think that’ll be happening this year!

In keeping with ‘November is blog posting month’, I will be posting sneak peeks of a family shoot I did yesterday throughout the week.

It ended up being a great day, even though we had a bit of rain come down (but made valuable use of the time, as you shall see in the coming days, with the macro shots of the beautiful girls). Here’s a shot I love of the whole group:

Thanks Shannon! I had a great time and captured some wonderful images. Check back over the course of the week for more sneak peeks. 🙂

[…] had a background of out-of-focus lights, but you can see them all around, if you look. My Hearts & Stars blog post shows a clearer example of how well the shapes can show up if the specular highlights are […]

[…] had a background of out-of-focus lights, but you can see them all around, if you look. My Hearts & Stars blog post shows a clearer example of how well the shapes can show up if the specular highlights are […]

Some photos from halloween, first a couple from the Halloween Parade at school:

Rebecca, in her Goth outfit/make-up:

Noah, in his put together creepy costume:

On the way to trick-or-treating. Lensbaby lens with the star creative aperture disk, which turns points of light into stars: (I attempted to make a Halloween shaped disk, but ran out of time…maybe next year!) (edited to add: I forgot that I had these cool Halloween borders from Pink Ink Studios!)

Here are a few of Rebecca and Alison. It was quite dark at this point so the photos are rather grainy due to high iso setting on the camera. All of shots, from Halloween night, are shot with the lensbaby lens, with the star aperature disk installed.

Did you use one of the blank discs that came with the creative aperature kit? I had heard that it was a good idea to try it on black poster board first, but had a devil of a time cutting it accurately. What did you use? Have any photos to share?